About the book
Philip Glass's memoir looks back on his life and career as a composer of operas, symphonies and film scores. It recalls the summer of 1956, when his mother Ida warned her nineteen-year-old son, already a University of Chicago graduate, that studying music in New York would leave him like his uncle Henry, a traveling musician who played vaudeville houses and dance halls. Glass describes a childhood in postwar Baltimore, student years in Chicago and at Juilliard, which at first turned him down, and study in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. He also writes about a trip to India where he met gurus, and about his New York day jobs in the 1970s. It became a New York Times best seller.
Austin Kleon said he devoured it and wondered why he had waited so long, praising how Glass covers creativity, day jobs, parenting and lineage and saying it made him want to hear more of the music.
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Austin Kleon (Artist & Bestselling Author)
Devoured this one, and afterwards, was surprised it took me so long to pick it up. Glass writes about so many of my favorite topics: creativity, day jobs, parenting, lineage, etc. Totally accessible, and made me want to listen to more of his music.
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